Word: hybridize
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...just about as well with its renamed Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Since 1903, when Hearst moved into Los Angeles, the chain has had trouble making a profit there; last year its two Los Angeles dailies dropped a thumping $3,000,000 between them. But Hearst's new afternoon hybrid, up to 721,026 in daily circulation (from 393,215), now claims to be making an occasional modest weekly profit...
...lowbrow features and a superficial approach to the news. But the company has invested $1,000,000 in new mechanical equipment, added some 20 reporters to the staff and expanded its business coverage. Last week Hearst headquarters announced that after the turn of the year its Los Angeles hybrid will get a new editor to replace Herbert H. Krauch, 66, a Hearst veteran of 50 years. Krauch's replacement will be John Denson, 59, who recently quit as editor of the New York Herald Tribune after a showdown argument over editorial authority...
...library in the Manhattan exurb of South Salem, N.Y. (pop. 500) was ex-Vice President, ex-Progressive Party Presidential Candidate and now Gentleman Farmer Henry A. Wallace, 73, a well satisfied borrower from the old library. While furrowing away on his 115-acre farm (chickens, gladioli, hybrid corn) nearby, Wallace had asked the little, 9,500-book library to find him a rare edition of a 400-page treatise published in 1766 called Histoire Naturelle du Fraisier (Natural History of the Strawberry Plant). Sure enough, after shelling out $500 for a surety bond, the library got it from...
...Euro-dollars, indeed!" snorts the senior partner of a London banking house. "It's hot money-and I prefer to call it by that name." By whatever name it is called, a new, hybrid medium of exchange is now at work financing trade between the nations of the free world...
...fewer than 4,000,000, and the farm population has shrunk from 25% of the total population to less than 10%. But a technological revolution has taken place in U.S. agriculture-the combined effect of more and better machinery, more efficient fertilizers, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plant varieties. As a result, productivity-production per worker-has increased much faster on the farms than it has in the factories. Just in the past decade, production per farm worker has soared...